With reports from across the Chicago media addressing Nikola Mirotic’s apparent unhappiness with Bobby Portis and the organization following Portis’ practice punch that knocked Mirotic out indefinitely, Bulls executive vice president of basketball operations John Paxson addressed reporters at the Advocate Center on Friday.
Here are some of his comments about the situation. All questions are paraphrased.
PAXSON: I just wanted to address kind of what’s going on recently. I’m not going to get into any specifics about what discussions we have had with any agents and players. What I do want to say is we’re really sensitive to this entire issue and what Niko is going through physically and mentally.